COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OCCUPATIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE I (FRENCH)

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
HUK 2045 OCCUPATIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE I (FRENCH) ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Law

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR MUHLIS ÖĞÜTÇÜ

Offered to

Law

Course Objective

Teaching French counterparts of basic legal terminology, translating legal texts from Turkish to French and from French to Turkish, making progress for being able to do debate on legal issues.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to possess French counterparts of basic legal concepts
2   Being able to interpret national and international Courts' decisions.
3   Being able to exchange ideas, both written and oral, on basic legal issues.
4   Being able to prepare studies such as seminar, homework, project, depending on the instructor and the student's preferences and trends, notably on the first semester topics of the courses: administrative law, criminal law, public international law, obligations law, family law, finance.
5   Being able to possess terminology regarding human rights, fundamental freedoms and rights, fundamental principles of law.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Giving information on the basic legal terminology
2 Preparation of a specific legal text by using basic legal terminology
3 Translating national court's decision by summarizing
4 Translating international court's decision by summarizing
5 Preparation of a request of individual petition for the ECtHR
6 Preparation of complaint petition
7 Norm translation and its analysis
8 Interpretation of Courts' decisions relating different issues
9 Translating a determined scientific article by summaraizing
10 Translating a determined monograph by summarizing
11 Interpratation of current legal events by taking into consideration newspapers and magazines' news
12 Evaluation of presentations, projescts, seminars prepared by students individually or in groups
13 Practice
14 Midtern

Recomended or Required Reading

Legal dictionaries
Monographs
Scientific articles
Legal texts and news published in newspapers and magazines
www.echr.coe.int
www.curia.europa.eu
www.legifrance.gouv.fr
www.conseil-etat.fr
www.courdecassation.fr

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Translation, seminar, preparation of project, discussion, review of decisions.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE+FIN
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE+RST


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

sesim.soyer@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 29 29
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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